Spanish to English translation?

English-Spanish and Spanish-English translation programs

• I recently bought translation software that is proving very unsatisfactory in translating emails---outgoing from English to Spanish and incoming from Spanish to English. What is the best translation program for my needs?

• Answer:

  Hi sailingtraders, thanks for an interesting question. My research has led me to agree with the opinions of livioflores-ga and owain-ga: no machine translations can compete with a human translation. Fortunately, there are decent machine translations available. The best I've found is Systran Premium, which retails for $759: URL: http://www.systransoft.com/Products/Premium.html For a comparison of the different products in the Systran line, see the following: URL: http://www.systransoft.com/Products/Comparison.html A discussion from Google Groups includes the opinion of a spanish professor on translation software: URL: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=EDTECH%2597042601451223%40MSU.EDU&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dspanish%2Btranslation%2Bsoftware%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3DEDTECH%252597042601451223%2540MSU.EDU%26rnum%3D2 A company called WorldLingo offers subscription-based email translation services that are recommended by Microsoft: URL: http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/email_solutions.html Additionally, WorldLingo offers translation by humans with instant, free quotes: URL: http://www.worldlingo.com/microsoft/human_translation.html And free machine translation: URL: http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html The standard in free machine translation is Altavista's Babelfish: URL: http://babelfish.altavista.com/ An extensive directory of free machine translation services is offered by About.com: URL: http://spanish.about.com/cs/onlinetranslation/ If it's an especially important document, I'd consider going with a human translation. Spintra offers same-day translation service: URL: http://www.spintra.com/ Other same-day translation providers: URL: http://spanish.about.com/cs/translators/ I hope you find this information useful, and feel free to request clarification. If you do require clarification, please allow me to provide it before you rate this answer. Hoping I was helpful, not_you-ga Search Strategy (on Google): "translation software" "spanish translation software" "translation software reviews" "spanish translation software reviews" "translation services" "live translation services"